oh jeez available in the movie the joint the hotel room it's the home of the us it's the gateway hotel the ground in theory truly the torch was the coolest coromandel you can a with the closeness of civility to go and. read this and the colonel was so told to retreat. he snapped cable has forced rescuers to restart the complicated operation to lift the massive bulgaria cruiser that sank a week ago claiming one hundred twenty nine lives. the murdoch media phone hacking scandal claims another v.i.p. scalp as britain's top cop quits over police connections to journalists suspected of criminal behavior former news international chief executive and news of the world editor rebecca brooks was arrested earlier in the day in london. and a libyan rebels have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority in the country by the u.s.

and thirty other countries but colonel gadhafi remains defiant ten thousand never to leave libya as a nato air strikes continue. and a transatlantic a cash crunch as america struggles to raise its debt ceiling in time to avert a default while the euro crisis spreads adding more pressure on the single currency . two o'clock on a monday morning here in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us russian emergency crews are to restart efforts to lift of the wreck of a sunken cruiser which went down in the river volga last week killing one hundred twenty nine people including many children a cable snaps during recovery efforts which have had to restart the cruise or vogue area went down in minutes and leaving most of the two hundred eight passengers no

chance of escape and one of russia's worst ever shipping disasters archies tom barton reports from the site of the catastrophe. as if to demonstrate just how difficult a covering the ball carrier is going to be the cable holding it just snap for the norm mighty bang a crane holding it rocked backwards and the cable whips up against the side of the ship that cable was there to try and support the ship to try and write it before they began lifting the ship with other straps that were later to be put under it it serves to demonstrate just how difficult and dangerous this operation is going to be if there were divers under there they could have been in great danger from the snapping cable they'd previously been trying to turn the ship around to get into position in order that they could right the ship and then bring it up to the surface but there's lots of other complications involved very poor visibility a lot of weight involved and a long a long and lengthy process is going to be needed we were told just recently by

a spokesman from the emergencies ministry it's going to take many days before they can begin to even start raising the ship that's going to come as a blow to all the investigators who were hoping for answers to come from the raising of the ship and all the relatives and survivors waiting on the bank for some news of the remaining fifteen bodies a mountain of cuddly toys never to be played with they are flowers and candles a testament to the children among those who drowned in the pleasure boat the bulgaria sank in the volga last sunday. we study together for a year ahead arguments with a one show was very can go and was always ready to help its ship sank in just three minutes turning a summer afternoon on the river into a scene of horror. is that people were basically buried alive and trying natural coughing we managed to get out through the windows i was there with my ten year old

daughter i couldn't rescue her she small i too much water when i was pulled out i realized my. it was gone in the chaos to escape and many other families were also torn apart one five year old boy lost his mother and grandmother and was only kept afloat by a man who grabbed his hand another man unable to hold on to his son and the strong current oil slick had to watch him drown in front of him yuri was the deejay for the disco on the bottom deck he only just managed to escape me and i remember clearly that water was rising very quickly it was a matter of seconds i survived because we saw a broken window in the cellar started pushing people out through it. on the surface and then i saw that the board was already under water and. over half the bulgaria's two hundred eight passengers and crew including the captain his wife and

child never made it out meanwhile as the arabella another pleasure boat arrived to the scene she was surrounded by people screaming and drowning unable to reach the banks of the vast river three kilometers away. as we approached it was hard to distinguish in the dark water people who were alive from the rubble that was floating around people were in panic when we rescued them in a state of shock some suffering from other traumas they were all covered in oil field that was leaking from a sunken ship it was a terrifying picture i have to say despite a huge search and rescue operation after the initial survivors were picked up a few others were found. but divers and cranes working in this water have been trying to recover just something of the lives lost and families destroyed in those few terrible minutes but they've also been working on the question the cost so much why did the bulgaria sink and sink so fast. as the list of bodies recovered from

the ship grew so did the number of revelations about an ageing dangerous and badly managed vessel eyewitnesses and people connected with. the ship came forward with damning accounts of its poor condition and the stingy management forced it to keep sailing. i became captain of the vessel in two thousand and seven the ship had need and been renovated for a while before that there were big problems with the engines and power generators repeatedly mention that to the management and even had an argument with them port authorities say they were lied to the ship was only supposed to carry one hundred forty people but was loaded with over two hundred they were told it was carrying twenty or more tales of bounds including a broken engine attic tricity generators failing so that no s.o.s. signal or tunnel instructions could be issued and blocks emergency exits criminal cases have been opened and arrests been made into the bulgaria sinking and more

controversially into why two ships which reached the scene before the arabella didn't pick up a single person but reports the crew members instead took pictures on their mobile phones. is either of those or to give you and you will all the passengers were shocked there were about seventeen people on a raft and many had cuts and injuries that were bleeding we yelled for help i saw the board passers by in a different direction towards. a slow process of raising the bulgaria has now started up with it will come the potential for answers but also terrible memories in particular associated with the ship's play room or a group of children were gathered when the ship sank. just some of the young victims in what will go down as one of russia's worst and most avoidable shipping disasters tom bottom party. in an exclusive interview with r.t. the captain of the ship who helped rescue most of the survivors from the bulgaria

has described the horrific scene you can watch his dramatic account in around twenty minutes time or on our website. britain's most senior police officer has resigned the latest high profile casualty caught up in the news of the world phone hacking scandal which continues to escalate sir paul stephenson quit as a natural politan police commissioner following revelations of he hired a former deputy editor of the paper who'd been arrested by his own officers investigating illegal accessing of mobile phones and corruption hours earlier the former news of the world editor rebecca brooks was arrested as part of the same inquiry media analyst phil grease says that the practice of police being paid for information by the media is not likely to disappear anytime soon. this is a good example of what the police have been doing in the kind of murdoch years they've been using a recipe in leaking they're being paid for telling people where celebrities have

been arrested so actually manipulating the rest of people is actually a practice it has become in trying or in my view as a result of the kind of bribery thing so this would hardly be out of practice but i don't think it's going to deflect the opinion i mean there are so many m.p.'s now and indeed so much of the british establishment which for so long kowtow to murdoch is now prepared to get to the bottom of this and we doubt those people who have been corrupted different levels remember that four years ago right the police had these bags with i think it was a level of thousand letters about four thousand celebrities and victims of crime and all these other people and they knew they were taking part investigation and these bags were just left there i mean it's amazing it's remarkable that it took four years for them to do anything about this meanwhile senior police officers were wining and dining with members of the murdoch empire they were they were making them for drinks privately one even hired them at a thousand pounds a day to work for him so you know what does this tell us about the relationship

between the police and the news corp employees well it's very very serious and if this can happen at the top of the police. look at the example that gives the officers down down the lines now you could well you know can any organization properly examine itself but so much is at stake but if that operation is seen to be corrupted as well i think we've got you know an even bigger problem i think so many people now are watching it including you know members of parliament select committee things the investigative bodies within the british political system they're all all eyes are on this let alone all the journalists who are looking at what's going on so i think that the ramifications of this is so big i mean you know britain is is is shaking at this each day it's headline news and people are asking who's next. meanwhile rupert murdoch is trying to rescue news corp's crumbling reputation he spent the last forty eight hours apologizing for the phone hacking scandal with full page newspaper advert while also meeting the family of

a murdered teenager whose voicemail was intercepted and laura emmett reports it's a watershed moment for the cozy relationship between britain's politicians and press. good every media outlet and t.v. reveal even the scale of it is when parts imitates life a long running simpsons takes a shot at it only rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case it seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand nine which the police have have since about two thousand and forty thousand and five and yet they've got private facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they've not acted on it so why now just as the

murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. . be sure to go ahead his or tribal the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of amoral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which crony loses money could have transferred some of the profits from. him to investing in the times for example the. growth. that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead be.

given. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for its sharp teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where it is concerned prime minister david cameron has shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is thought it as the townspeople open up their own newspaper and he's almost right. it is possible to control the media. beautiful murdoch found as did mr burns that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him for years and this time they may have succeeded just as he looks set to consolidate control over

a lot section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden sky. now reveals the police knowing about it for you know and it's hot seat . still ahead this hour the dangers of a default. we examine why the u.s. is on the brink of a financial nightmare and what it might do to try to avoid it. square a four wheeled frenzy as high speed formula one super cars screech through the center of moscow. a senior advisor to the afghan president hamid karzai and a member of parliament have been killed during a suicide attack in the capital kabul the incident comes less than a week after karzai is half brother was assassinated the taliban claimed responsibility for the killing describing it as one of its biggest achievements in

a decade meanwhile the u.s. led coalition has started handing over control of some of afghanistan's territories to local security forces but journalist jerry van dyke who was once held hostage by the taliban says u.s. led efforts in the region have been seriously undermined by the death of karzai. while the cars i was not just the governor or the shadow governor of kandahar he was the most powerful and the most popular person throughout all of southern afghanistan this shows that right now with the canadian troops pulling out and with the u.s. trying to focus on eastern afghanistan feeling that they have controlled the south there is now a vacuum who is in power who can the west rely upon the taliban have claimed responsibility for this but it's not clear that the taliban are responsible it could very easily be a power struggle i've also heard and others have reported that he was responsible

for perhaps starting to bring the taliban together with the united states to negotiate therefore someone would have had a deaf. reason perhaps pakistan perhaps the taliban to stop this we don't know yet who is responsible because they killed the person who had all the information. that it was a journalist gerry van dyke commenting on the killing of the afghan president's half brother. a new nato airstrikes have hit the suburbs of the libyan capital tripoli as colonel gadhafi val's he'll never leave his country and this comes after his opponents have been recognized as the legitimate governing authority by over thirty nations led by the u.s. they said they would deal with of the rebel transitional national council until an interim government is in place the measures that give the insurgents access to gadhafi the assets including billions of dollars which have been frozen in american banks but as

a political commentator ted rall says the move marks the radical shift. the united states usually doesn't extend to diplomatic recognition to a regime that is not in the capital that is region it doesn't even seem likely to be able to achieve power any time soon but you can look at the situation in afghanistan during the one nine hundred ninety six to two thousand and one civil conflict there between the taliban and the northern alliance the northern alliance were the former regime that had power in kabul and you have diplomatic relations with the west even though that's not a gun control ninety five percent of the country it's almost just wishful thinking and frankly if i were a diplomat i would find it disturbing to get to preserve our situation i mean if the u.s. knows who these people are they're not seeing and certainly there's no doubt that traditionally there's always been a very high component to these. around ghazi so it's unrealistic to assume that that is not still the case the u.s.

has an amazing bit of shipping skids full of hundred dollar bills to third world countries and expecting them to end up in the right hands i'm really going to. the recognition of the rebels by more nations may bolster their spirit but it's a different story in combat fierce fighting for a key eastern oil town has ended up with heavy opposition casualties as daniel bushell reports it's thought france is now trying the tactic of talks with the libyan regime after failing to deliver a knockout blow to gadhafi. books is like bragging will destroy the republicans they're often wrong and gets the surprise. french foreign minister should pay boasted france would win libya in quote days or weeks the wars into a fourth month and the final round inside nicolas sarkozy with his western allies seem shocked the little opponents pointing back well it's not just an

embarrassment for sarkozy it's some embarrassment for all nato for the whole west her is even to me it's all the libya's rebels got it and some somalia. went to libya for training with the last two or three years plus documented we have the fly records and everything else so it seems strange in many ways the whole western support of some of that i will groups in libya must be questioned because in some cases i think we are effectively arming al-qaeda. it's all making a mockery of the un votes on foreign intervention in the country. giving. witnesses. of libya's causing widespread atrocities for every. military

person that was supposedly a casualty there were ten civilians frauds categorically ruled out sending grilled troops predict is the only way they'll break the libyan deadlock the moves of splitting the nato coalition silvio berlusconi head of keep italy invading libya was a mistake russia the us votes for and bombs would bring in libya to pay said the latest count supports the love rothwell quote lloyd lee diplomat speak for. all of elections just annoying months away sako advises that a successful war could resurrect his chances instead one paper writes libya's becoming a slow motion call crash for france's deeply unpopular president so is easy jogging for excessive sweating is understandable this is libyan sprint is turning into

a marathon a new bush will see paris. russia's foreign minister was in the u.s. capital this week to get clarification on washington's missile defense agenda america is steaming ahead with deployment of its anti-missile shield in europe despite objections from moscow the u.s. claims the project is aimed at protection against an attack by iran or north korea but russia feels the system could threaten its own national security moscow has suggested a joint missile defense program but that being brushed aside by washington and nato the u.s. is also refusing to provide all. binding guarantees that its proposed system is not aimed against russia sergey lavrov stressed a voice of radio voice of russia radio in washington needed to prevent a new arguments. facts on the ground being created on the basis of. national design of missile defense which was not accepted by us as a reasonable way to respond to what is their sieved as being the purpose of the

system we want at this particular moment to stick to the original agreement that there will be no parts of the system which would. compromise which would. create three six for the strategic stability and for the potential in the strategic stability area and then mr digic arsenals of the participants of this extent. now let's have a brief look at some other stories from around the globe. egypt's former president hosni mubarak has suffered a stroke and is in a coma according to his lawyers doctors were reportedly working to bring the eighty three year old deposed to consciousness but health officials and state t.v. have denied the information saying mubarak's condition is stable comes after the country's prime minister reshuffled his cabinet in response to renewed public protests demanding political reform. venezuelan president hugo chavez is back

in cuba for more cancer treatment including chemotherapy you know more malignant cells have been found after he had surgery to remove a true murder from his private region he was transferred some powers to his ministers during his absence but didn't agree to opposition calls for a temporary handover of all presidential authority is that battle with cancer has raising doubts over his fitness to lead the country but he still plans to run for reelection next year. time is running out for american politicians to agree on the next move in sorting out its soaring debt and a deadline to lift of the nation's fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling is looming ever closer as lawmakers struggle to find a solution president obama is urging democrats and republicans to ignore their differences to avert armageddon it's incredible rating agencies say there's a risk of the u.s. could fail to resolve the deadlock quickly or effectively but zeke miller from the business insider website says both parties understand the dangers of further

borrowing. the impact on the u.s. economy the world economy and the global economy really depends on what the credit agencies do and we heard from moody's on wednesday and then from s. and p. both warning severe consequences if the government doesn't raise the debt ceiling in time including a possible downgrade from the government's aaa rating and that increases the cost got just for the federal government but for seven thousand resupply ladies across the. country the united states i don't think anybody thinks united states is getting away with this anywhere any longer they've sort of reached the point where i think everybody in both parties agrees that the debt is just too high and they're just they can't borrow any more you can't be far away for you know the sort of annual it's not a sustainable model for any country if this debt ceiling goes up or if the u.s. credit rating is downgraded that would have you know it's a big problem the current recession and slow down the recovery. things are a little better in europe with italy now the focus of stopping the euro zone

heading into oblivion roams approved a tough seventy billion euro package to avoid a debt wipeout the euro zone's third largest economy and could prove too big for its neighbors to bail out meanwhile a lot of the ninety european banks have failed stress tests to see if they can survive another financial crisis economics professor patrick mean for some e.u. countries may have to accept a default as wealthier nations no longer want to pay for their costly rescue. money we've known all along that a lot of banks in europe and in the north would not pass stress tests if these stress tests included the possibility of sovereign default because of course they've got loads of greek and portuguese and spanish debt and so there was never any question but one of the reasons why it might be in germany is interest to bail out greece is that it's if it doesn't it's going to have a banking crisis of its own and will have to bailout its own banks but i think that

the judgment of the taxpayer is they'd rather bail out their own banks if they have to then keep on giving money to greeks who may not have a good look give it back to them so there's no bailout really impressed by these rich northern countries and therefore the other countries have to think of some way of getting by and that's going to be default. several moscow streets were impassable on sunday afternoon. but not because of the little koreas traffic jams they were sealed off to temporarily become of the realm of the fast and the furious in a high octane performance formula one drivers burned some serious rubber against the amazing backdrop of the criminal laws was part of the annual moscow city racing show featuring famous f one stars and of the winners of the world rowing championships it's a taste of things to come for russian f one fans as the country will get its own grand prix in three years time. coming back to recapture days and his weeks main

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